Another wonderful series! I think I remember you posting shots of the same waterfall with very green foliage (and more water), or else another one with similar geology. I prefer these, there's a delicateness to these pictures and the colors are wonderful. They are (barely) my favorites of the series, but really the whole set is just awesome.

John - Glad you enjoyed these. So sorry to be late in answering your question - have been out on the trail and working with students past few days. To answer your question, some species of trees will die after a fire, but many can resprout, and some can tolerate a fair amount of heat. It also depends on the severity and duration of the fire. At Buffalo Mt, it was quite a hot fire, and most of the big trees have died back to the roots. But there are a lot resprouting, and a lot of heat-tolerant seedlings that are taking advantage of the suddenly opened-up forest canopy.